McGill University
School of Computer Science

Computer Science 308-655
Distributed Simulation

Description:

Project for Parallel Simulation, Comp 655

The project concerns a parallel simulation of a mobile communications network. Known as a PCS (personal communications system), it provides communications for mobile users. The service area is divided into cells, each of which has a transmitter with a fixed number of channels. A regular hexagon is used to represent a cell. When a user makes a call, a channel is assigned to the user. If all channels are allocated, the call is blocked. If a user moves from one cell to another during a call, a new channel is allocated to provide for a continuation of the call. In the simulation, LPs correspond to cells, and each cell has 500 channels. Calls can be static or mobile. The velocity of a mobile call is assumed to be constant, and its direction can be chosen from one of six directions-north, east, south, west, southwest, northwest, northeast. The velocity and direction of a call are chosen from a uniform distribution and the call completion time is determined by an exponential distribution with a mean of 300. The cell diameter is fixed at 1 km. You should use a hexagonal mesh topology, as suggested by Lin and Mak (Eliminating the Boundary Effect of a Large-Scale Personal Communication Service Network Simulation, ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation, 4(2):165-190, 1994. Finally, you should use a bounded windows technique to synchronize the processes. See "Event scheduling in window based parallel simulation schemes", by Ayani and Rajael, Proceedings of the fourth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1992 for a simple description. It is expected to be an individual project.